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1 19.0 This raises the interesting question as to how many of the diminishing band of contemporary hunter-gatherer cultures are in fact the descendents of farmers who have only secondarily readopted hunter-gathering as a more useful lifestyle, perhaps after suffering from crop failures, dietary deficiencies, or climatic changes. [2073-31]


 


 


 


2 16.7 Some theorists view it as a body of knowledge that developed to provide accurate information to people that helps them adjust to the many demands of life, whether that means obtaining food and shelter, defending against rival outgroups, and so on. [2073-4142]


 


 


 


3 16.7 Research on primate behavior indicates that even our closest cousins, the chimpanzees, lack this ability (although they possess some self-reflective abilities, like being able to identify themselves in a mirror instead of thinking the reflection is another chimp). [2073-29]


 


 


 


4 15.5 In the longer term, by bringing together enough data and enough computing power, the data-giants could hack the deepest secrets of life, and then use this knowledge not just to make choices for us or manipulate us, but also to re-engineer organic life and to create inorganic life forms. [2073-34]


 


 


 


5 14.7 But while parents can be counted on to assess how the well-being of their household is affected by additional offspring, they overlook other impacts of population growth, such as diminished per capita food supplies for other people. [2073-30]


 


 


 


6 14.4 Both the acquisition and subsequent rejection of agriculture are becoming increasingly recognized as adaptive strategies to local conditions that may have occurred repeatedly over the past ten millennia. [2073-31]


 


 


 


7 14.399999999999999 From the existential perspective, the adaptive utility of accurate worldviews is tempered by the adaptive value of anxiety-buffering illusions. [2073-4142]


 


 


8 14.2 In other words, the reduction in capacity of territorial borders to separate and defend against others often elicits adverse reactions in numerous populations. [2073-24]


 


 


9 13.9 The borderless-world thesis has been vigorously criticized by many geographers on the grounds that it presents a simplistic and idealized vision of globalization. [2073-24]


 


 


10 13.4 Much of this loss has been driven by habitat destruction from logging and the rapid spread of vast plantations of oil palm, the fruit of which is sold to make oil used in cooking and in many food products. [2073-37]


 


 


 


11 12.9 Hunter-gatherer cultures across the world, from midwestern Amerindians to !Kung in the African Kalahari, have adopted and subsequently discarded agriculture, possibly on several occasions over their history, in response to factors such as game abundance, climatic change, and so on. [2073-31]


 


 


 


12 12.6 At a time when concerns about overpopulation and famine were reaching their highest peak, Garrett Hardin did not blame these problems on human ignorance ― a failure to take note of dwindling per capita food supplies, for example. [2073-30]


 


 


 


13 12.4 So far, the consumption-dominated rhetoric of globalization has done little to uncouple the feeling of difference that borders create from the formation of people's territorial identities. [2073-24]


 


 


14 11.3 So if adaptation to physical and social environments were all that cultures were designed to facilitate, perhaps cultures would always strive toward an accurate understanding of the world. [2073-4142]


 


 


 


15 11.3 Selling advertisements may be necessary to sustain the giants in the short term, but they often evaluate apps, products and companies according to the data they harvest rather than according to the money they generate. [2073-34]


 


 


 


16 11.2 From 1905, he began a long collaboration with fellow Hungarian Zoltán Kodály in trying to popularize Hungarian folk songs and gained a practical knowledge of string writing from both folk and classical musicians. [2073-26]


 


 


 


17 11.0 To understand excessive reproduction as a tragedy of the commons, bear in mind that a typical household stands to gain from bringing another child into the world ― in terms of the net contributions he or she makes to household earnings, for example. [2073-30]


 


 


 


18 11.0 Overall, electric car sales are expected to be on the rise for the next 20 years until 2040 while IC car sales are anticipated to reach their peak in 2025 and decrease afterwards. [2073-25]


 


 


 


19 11.0 One of the positive features of interpersonal arguments is that they are comprised of exchanges between two people who feel powerful enough to set forth reasons for their beliefs. [2073-35]


 


 


 


20 10.8 Typically, people report roaming dogs for pickup by animal control authorities, who take the dog to the local shelter. [2073-23]


 


 


21 10.8 The ability is a double-edged sword, because while it allows us to evaluate why we are thinking what we are thinking, it also puts us in touch with difficult existential questions that can easily become obsessions. [2073-29]


 


 


 


22 10.8 But new weapons like the atlatl (a spearthrower) and the bow effectively stored muscle-generated energy, which meant that hunters could kill big game without big biceps and robust skeletons. [2073-39]


 


 


 


23 10.3 We have this ability because the most recently developed part of the human brain ― the prefrontal cortex ― enables self-reflective, abstract thought. [2073-29]


 


 


24 10.3 Therefore, the process of what may be termed the 'agriculturalization' of human societies was not necessarily irreversible, at least on a local level. [2073-31]


 


 


25 10.3 Released pets not captured and sheltered suffer from weather, wild predators, and a lack of adequate food. [2073-23]


 


 


26 10.3 I mentally recalled some of my own journeys with wiggly ones on my lap, especially the day my own toddler cried the entire trip from Chicago to Florida, which was something of a nightmare. [2073-4345]


 


 


 


27 10.1 Some people believe the animal has a better chance to survive roaming free than at a shelter, a false belief formed to salve the pet abandoner's conscience. [2073-23]


 


 


 


28 10.1 Our ability to stand high on a ladder above our normal thinking processes and evaluate why we are thinking as we are thinking is an evolutionary marvel. [2073-29]


 


 


 


29 9.8 Until 2035, IC cars are projected to still sell more than electric cars, but the story changes in 2040 when electric car sales are predicted to outnumber those of IC cars. [2073-25]


 


 


 


30 9.8 A question can be raised about the basic notion that sensitivity to problems is critical in setting the creative process in motion. [2073-22]


 


 


31 9.7 Try to specify the necessary and sufficient condition for something qualifying as art and you'll always find an exception to your criteria. [2073-32]


 


 


32 9.7 Our outline of the school is at a primitive stage currently, and its execution and extension are hugely dependent on your donations. [2073-18]


 


 


33 9.6 Otherwise, politicians promise higher spending during an election, and the post-election excess of spending over revenue is resolved by inflation. [2073-33]


 


 


34 9.6 Difference between people and places may be socially constructed through the erection of boundaries, but this does not mean that it is not deeply internalized by the members of a society. [2073-24]


 


 


 


35 9.5 It is no doubt true that many people are motivated to carry out creative activities because of problems they sense in their personal or professional environments. [2073-22]


 


 


36 9.3 When heated, these long molecules disintegrate into smaller units, some of which are so small that they evaporate (which accounts for the lovely smell). [2073-36]


 


 


37 9.3 Truth tellers also talk about themselves more than liars, because people telling the truth are more focused on their own memories than liars are (who are also thinking about how their story is being perceived by others). [2073-38]


 


 


 


38 9.3 A society that succeeds in generating many obligations can be more generous and harmonious than one relying only on rights. [2073-33]


 


 


39 9.1 In most cases, the free rat proceeded to help her trapped companion, and after several attempts usually succeeded in opening the cage and liberating the prisoner. [2073-40]


 


 


40 9.1 If philosophy were to admit defeat in its search for some immutable essence of art, it is hardly through lack of trying. [2073-32]


 


 


41 9.0 Even if you don't know how to cash in on the data today, it is worth having it because it might hold the key to controlling and shaping life in the future. [2073-34]


 


 


 


42 8.9 Many rats preferred to first free their companion and share the chocolate (though a few behaved more selfishly, proving perhaps that some rats are meaner than others). [2073-40]


 


 


 


43 8.8 We exchanged a few pleasantries after which I suggested that she let me hold her sleeping darling while she attended to the wiggly one. [2073-4345]


 


 


44 8.8 Because overwhelming fear can get in the way of many types of adaptive action, it sometimes is adaptive for cultures to provide "rose-colored glasses" with which to understand reality and our place in it. [2073-4142]


 


 


 


45 8.6 Sugars are carbohydrates, which is to say that they are made of carbon ("carbo-"), hydrogen ("hydr-"), and oxygen ("-ate") atoms. [2073-36]


 


 


46 8.6 It appears that the more territorial borders fall apart, the more various groups around the world cling to place, nation, and religion as markers of their identity. [2073-24]


 


 


 


47 8.5 Geographic expansion (which placed us in new environments) and cultural innovation both changed the selective pressures humans experienced. [2073-39]


 


 


48 8.5 Further roasting will turn some of the sugar into pure carbon (double bonds all round), which creates a burnt flavor and a dark-brown color. [2073-36]


 


 


49 8.3 Instead, his explanation focused on the discrepancy between the interests of individual households and those of society as a whole. [2073-30]


 


 


50 8.2 Western electorates have mostly learned that discussion of public spending must balance its benefits against how it would be financed. [2073-33]


 


 


51 8.2 However, there is historical evidence that the creative process can be set in motion without necessity, even in the domain of invention. [2073-22]


 


 


52 8.1 Cats and exotic or unusual animals, unless confined to a small area, are not usually discovered or reported. [2073-23]


 


 


53 7.9 Lack of argument, in fact, may show that one of the parties feels so powerless that he or she avoids engaging directly with the other. [2073-35]


 


 


54 7.8 Just as new obligations are similar to extra revenue, so the creation of rights is similar to extra spending. [2073-33]


 


 


55 7.7 In 2035, the sales gap between IC and electric cars is expected to be smaller compared to that of 2030, with electric cars selling over 40 million units. [2073-25]


 


 


 


56 7.5 I don't know for certain that the data-giants explicitly think about it in such terms, but their actions indicate that they value the accumulation of data more than mere dollars and cents. [2073-34]


 


 


 


57 7.5 Bartók had a successful career as a pianist, performing throughout Europe and in the United States with musicians such as the jazz clarinetist Benny Goodman. [2073-26]


 


 


58 7.4 The above graph shows the global sales expectations of internal combustion (IC) cars and electric cars from 2020 through 2040. [2073-25]


 


 


59 7.4 As a nonprofit organization, the school will be run only on your contributions and resources as gifts to the children we hope to help. [2073-18]


 


 


60 7.4 A popular app may lack a business model and may even lose money in the short term, but as long as it sucks data, it could be worth billions. [2073-34]


 


 


 


61 7.3 In other words, the costs of reproduction are largely shared, rather than being shouldered entirely by individual households. [2073-30]


 


 


62 7.2 In recent years I've come to see that, amazingly, the key to almost all of our problems is faulty storytelling, because it's storytelling that drives the way we gather and spend our energy. [2073-21]


 


 


 


63 7.1 It's appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve. [2073-20]


 


 


64 7.1 If two people are arguing, it is because they are balanced enough in power (or in their desire to reestablish a power balance) to proceed. [2073-35]


 


 


65 7.1 However, adaptation to the metaphysical environment suggests that people do not live by truth and accuracy alone. [2073-4142]


 


 


66 7.0 Sometimes it is more adaptive for cultural worldviews to distort the truth about life and our role in it. [2073-4142]


 


 


67 7.0 I offered to help the children into their stroller on the jet way, but the mother assured she could manage quite well on her own. [2073-4345]


 


 


68 6.9 They locked a rat in a tiny cage, placed the cage within a much larger cell and allowed another rat to roam freely through that cell. [2073-40]


 


 


69 6.9 The rights may well be appropriate, but this can only be determined by a public discussion of the corresponding obligations. [2073-33]


 


 


70 6.8 There are several broad differences in the way that liars and truth tellers discuss events. [2073-38]


 


71 6.7 The higher figures come thanks to improved survey methods and the discovery of previously unknown populations, not because the actual numbers have increased. [2073-37]


 


 


72 6.7 The caged rat gave out distress signals, which caused the free rat also to exhibit signs of anxiety and stress. [2073-40]


 


 


73 6.6 If she had had to hold the baby on her lap and entertain the wiggly one it would have been much more difficult. [2073-4345]


 


 


74 6.6 I let the metro move which moves quickly and is almost out of sight when I realise that one of my expensive shoes is missing! [2073-19]


 


 


75 6.6 Culture also tells us how groups of people work together to achieve mutually beneficial goals, and how to live our lives so that others will like and accept us ― and maybe even fall in love with us. [2073-4142]


 


 


 


76 6.5 On the whole, it is the carbon-rich molecules that are larger, so these get left behind, and within these there is a structure called a carbon-carbon double bond. [2073-36]


 


 


 


77 6.2 A short metro carriage runs through this place carrying executives. [2073-19]


 


78 6.1 The payoff of many traits changed, and so did optimal life strategy. [2073-39]


 


79 6.1 Argument is "reason giving", trying to convince others of your side of the issue. [2073-35]


 


80 6.0 Sometimes it seems that contemporary art isn't doing its job unless it provokes the question, 'But is it art?' [2073-32]


 


 


81 6.0 Rather than face the stress of turning the pet in to a shelter, owners drive pets far from their home range and abandon them. [2073-23]


 


 


82 6.0 At that time, there was no need for such a machine; only gradually, after the Wright brothers were successful in inventing the airplane, did the broader implications of that invention become apparent. [2073-22]


 


 


 


83 5.9 Interpersonal argumentation, then, has a place in our everyday conflicts and negotiations. [2073-35]


 


84 5.8 The arguer tries to get others to "recognize the rightness" of his or her beliefs or actions. [2073-35]


 


 


85 5.8 Rights imply obligations, but obligations need not imply rights. [2073-33]


 


86 5.8 In these cases, the survivor pets become an invasive species and the environment suffers. [2073-23]


 


87 5.8 He later studied at the Royal Hungarian Academy of Music, following the lead of another eminent Hungarian composer, Ernö Dohnányi. [2073-26]


 


 


88 5.5 We respond to a child drowning in a pond because of her plight, not her rights. [2073-33]


 


89 5.5 One difference is that liars say less overall than truth tellers. [2073-38]


 


90 5.4 Such attacks were highly dangerous and physically demanding, so in those days, hunters had to be heavily muscled and have thick bones. [2073-39]


 


 


91 5.4 Some things about life are too emotionally devastating to face head on, such as the inevitability of death. [2073-4142]


 


 


92 5.3 At the end of the nineteenth century a number of research projects were underway whose purpose was the invention of a flying machine. [2073-22]


 


 


93 5.2 Participate in your story rather than observing it from afar. [2073-21]


 


94 5.2 Many thousands more orangutans are now known to exist than were recognized at the turn of the millennium. [2073-37]


 


 


95 5.2 In fact, the overall population of orangutans has fallen by at least 80 percent in the past 75 years. [2073-37]


 


 


96 5.2 Art seems to be a paradigmatic example of a Wittgensteinian 'family resemblance' concept. [2073-32]


 


97 5.1 We hope that you will be a part of our project and look forward to further support and encouragement. [2073-18]


 


 


98 5.0 That is because when you recall a real memory, you begin to reexperience some of the emotion from that event. [2073-38]


 


 


99 4.9 The reason why any sugar molecule ― whether in cocoa bean or pan or anywhere else ― turns brown when heated is to do with the presence of carbon. [2073-36]


 


 


 


100 4.8 Obligations are to rights what taxation is to public spending ― the bit that is demanding. [2073-33]


 


101 4.8 Metacognition simply means "thinking about thinking," and it is one of the main distinctions between the human brain and that of other species. [2073-29]


 


 


102 4.6 It is a great disappointment that such a young population of our community is wasted and cannot see the light of education. [2073-18]


 


 


103 4.6 I stop the metro and tell them that I need to check for my bag in their glass bag carriage. [2073-19]


 


 


104 4.6 "The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best ― and therefore never scrutinize or question," said paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. [2073-21]


 


 


105 4.5 You are not morally obliged to support someone who is making the world a worse place. [2073-20]


 


106 4.5 In the 1980s and '90s, some conservationists predicted that orangutans would go extinct in the wild within 20 or 30 years. [2073-37]


 


 


107 4.5 In 2040, 65 million electric cars are anticipated to be sold globally, which is ten million more than IC car sales. [2073-25]


 


 


108 4.4 Once that happened, lightly built people, who were better runners and did not need as much food, became competitively superior. [2073-39]


 


 


109 4.4 As a result, that emotion feels obvious to you (and would be obvious to anyone watching you). [2073-38]


 


 


110 4.3 Sure enough, no one had chosen the aisle seat by the threesome. [2073-4345]


 


111 4.3 In the terminal stood a young father waiting for his family to return from baby's first visit to far away grandparents. [2073-4345]


 


 


112 4.2 Kindly look at our plan on our website dreamproject and donate at your convenience. [2073-18]


 


113 4.2 It's indicative of the difficulty of orangutan research that scientist Erik Meijaard is willing to say only that between 40,000 and 100,000 live on Borneo. [2073-37]


 


 


114 4.2 Interestingly, truth tellers talk less about their emotions than liars do. [2073-38]


 


115 4.2 In 2025, IC and electric car sales are each expected to grow by five million units compared to 2020. [2073-25]


 


 


116 4.1 The researchers then repeated the experiment, this time placing chocolate in the cell. [2073-40]


 


117 4.1 I am well dressed in a charcoal colour suit with a matching tie and black shoes. [2073-19]


 


118 4.0 With the rise of fascism, he refused to play in Germany after 1933. [2073-26]


 


119 4.0 We are planning to open a school for the underprivileged students of the locality at Norristown. [2073-18]


 


120 4.0 So the driving force behind the invention of the airplane seems not to have been necessity. [2073-22]


 


121 4.0 I must have left it in the cabin while looking for the bag and the metro has left. [2073-19]


 


 


122 3.9000000000000004 For example, in a recent study of the Mlabri, a modern hunter-gatherer group from northern Thailand, it was found that these people had previously been farmers, but had abandoned agriculture about 500 years ago. [2073-31]


 


 


 


123 3.8 The hotel lobby was elegant and well lit. [2073-19]


124 3.8 Born in Nagyszentmiklos, Hungary, Béla Bartók began composing music at the age of nine. [2073-26]


 


125 3.8 Arguably, we have very good reasons for thinking that this has been one of the biggest wild goose chases in the history of ideas. [2073-32]


 


 


126 3.7 The performance included a composition of his own. [2073-26]


127 3.7 Nor do the duties of rescue need to be matched by rights. [2073-33]


 


128 3.6 Releasing your pet, whether a cat, rabbit, or bearded dragon, is not the answer. [2073-23]


 


129 3.6 If you have a friend whose friendship you wouldn't recommend to your sister, or your father, or your son, why would you have such a friend for yourself? [2073-20]


 


 


 


130 3.6 How easy it was to entertain this contented baby! [2073-4345]


 


131 3.5 These children that we hope to help are often seen working in factories and cafes due to their family's financial difficulties. [2073-18]


 


 


132 3.5 The obligations of parents to our children go way beyond their legal rights. [2073-33]


 


133 3.5 Pet owners sometimes tire of their animals or become overwhelmed by caring for a large number of pets or a difficult pet. [2073-23]


 


 


134 3.5 It was then I noticed the young mother with her toddler and infant. [2073-4345]


 


135 3.5 I feel great thinking I am fitted out to charm any crowd. [2073-19]


 


136 3.3 Worse, as the various art forms ― poetry, drama, sculpture, painting, fiction, dance, etc. [2073-32]


 


137 3.3 The book I had planned to read remained in my bag under the seat. [2073-4345]


 


138 3.3 So, you'd better examine your story, especially this one that's supposedly the most familiar of all. [2073-21]


 


139 3.1 The free rat now had to choose between either liberating the prisoner, or enjoying the chocolate all by herself. [2073-40]


 


 


140 3.1 Conservationists on Sumatra estimate that only 14,000 survive there. [2073-37]


 


141 3.0 ― are so different, I'm not sure why we should expect to be able to come up with a single definition that can capture their variety. [2073-32]


 


 


142 3.0 I wanted to be early in line for my boarding section so I could get a choice seat near the front. [2073-4345]


 


 


143 3.0 He was easily identified from his wife's description. [2073-4345]


144 3.0 Culture is a uniquely human form of adaptation. [2073-4142]


145 2.9000000000000004 That kind of body had its disadvantages ― if nothing else, it required more food ― but on the whole, it was the best solution in that situation. [2073-39]


 


 


 


146 2.9000000000000004 I believe that stories ― not the ones people tell us but the ones we tell ourselves ― determine nothing less than our personal and professional destinies. [2073-21]


 


 


 


147 2.9 "Nobody is going to want to sit next to that wiggly boy," I thought to myself. [2073-4345]


 


148 2.7 Now she opened her big blue eyes and smiled at me, unafraid. [2073-4345]


 


149 2.7 If you are telling the truth, the details of what happened are obvious. [2073-38]


 


150 2.7 If you are lying, it is not easy to conjure up lots of details. [2073-38]


 


151 2.6 If you are lying, though, you don't really experience that emotion, so you describe it instead. [2073-38]


 


152 2.5999999999999996 Tell yourself the right story ― the rightness of which only you can really determine. [2073-21]


 


153 2.5 For example, when humans hunted big game 100,000 years ago, they relied on close-in attacks with thrusting spears. [2073-39]


 


 


154 2.4000000000000004 If you're finally living the story you want, then it needn't ― it shouldn't and won't ― be an ordinary one. [2073-21]


 


 


155 2.4 I find all sorts of bags except mine. [2073-19]


156 2.4 But I forget where I've left my briefcase and laptop. [2073-19]


 


157 2.3 As I passed him I smiled and lifted up a prayer for God's blessing on this lovely young family. [2073-4345]


 


 


158 2.2 At least neither of these children was crying or being difficult. [2073-4345]


 


159 2.1 The sleeping baby seemed to get heavier as time went on. [2073-4345]


 


160 2.1 At eleven Bartók played in public for the first time. [2073-26]


 


161 2.0999999999999996 In small amounts it gives the caramelizing sugar a yellow-brown color. [2073-36]


 


162 2.0 Make sure it's a story that compels you. [2073-21]


163 2.0 It's a good thing, not a selfish thing, to choose people who are good for you. [2073-20]


 


164 2.0 As one example, consider the invention of the airplane. [2073-22]


 


165 1.9 I doubt whether I have brought it with me to this country at all. [2073-19]


 


166 1.6 In 1940, he left Budapest for the United States and died there in 1945. [2073-26]


 


167 1.6 I'm not sure the question is worth asking. [2073-32]


168 1.6 And the most important story you will ever tell about yourself is the story you tell to yourself. [2073-21]


 


 


169 1.6 All of the sugar has become carbon, which is black. [2073-36]


 


170 1.5 You should choose people who want things to be better, not worse. [2073-20]


 


171 1.5 Then we could see the snow on Mt Hood, and I knew the flight would soon end. [2073-4345]


 


 


172 1.5 After all, you're not just the author of your story but also its main character, the hero. [2073-21]


 


 


173 1.3 Mr. nice guy that I am, I don't like to keep others waiting. [2073-19]


 


174 1.2999999999999998 People were gathering in the boarding area for the cross-country flight from Chicago to Portland. [2073-4345]


 


175 1.2999999999999998 It seems to me that the line between art and not-art is never going to be a sharp one. [2073-32]


 


 


176 1.0 The little boy was well-behaved, but constantly moving. [2073-4345]


177 0.9 We can think about ourselves as if we are not part of ourselves. [2073-29]


 


178 0.9 The baby sister had slept all the way across the country. [2073-4345]


 


179 0.8 This doesn't mean that all is well in the orangutans' world. [2073-37]


 


180 0.7 Then it was my turn to play little games with her. [2073-4345]


 


181 0.6000000000000001 A heavy build was yesterday's solution: expensive, but no longer necessary. [2073-39]


 


182 0.6 I might even be able to help the lady." [2073-4345]


 


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